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The scenario of folks getting in off the street, staying until they get their seals and then getting out is recognized as a major problem in the FF trade right now. It takes 3 years before a recruit FF finishes their QL5's  - at this point they are fully employable in a firehall just as their BE...

The USA initiated 85 yes-or-no votes in the UN general assembly in 2003; - the arab league voted against the US position in 88.7% of the time, -the ASEAN members voted against the US position 84.5% of the time, - the islamic conference members voted against the US position 84.1% of the time...

I wonder if united93 was the same guy posting that crap over at Matthew Good's site - 442 guy. The SAR chopper in his sig and flavour of his posts makes me a suspicious aloisius.

"Professors and doctors aren't recruited and trained on the public dime.  JTF2 Assaulters are.  We should protect our investment." Nearly 70% of the tuition cost of any citizen that goes to university is picked up by the taxpayer in this country. So what do you suggest we do with their training?

Lead bullets? Don't most modern military rifles, MGs and the like fire FMJ and steel rounds?

Guess I'll head down to stores and draw a set of water-wings...

Too bad, the apology would have gone a long way since Canadians are a forgiving bunch - if only he hadn't gone on to refuse to accept any responsibility for his actions.

I'm not - since that is not what the JNBCD COY is mandated to do.

Decon has absolutely nothing to do with engineering at all, and it would only take 12 months to learn the job if you happened to be in a persistant vegetative for the first 11 and a half months. I could take a chimpanzee, and with nothing but a handfull of bananas, and a lot of pointing and...

Here's a question that I can't find an answer for (looked through the CFAO's & DAOD's - did I miss anything?) CFAO 50-1 -- PHYSICAL FITNESS TRAINING - states that all personnel who have completed basic trades or classification training will be evaluated annually using the CF EXPRES Program...

Ever hear of Ripple rock near Vancouver Island? Claim that Hans is a hazard to navigation and every summer blow up a little more of it until the problem goes away. No island - no territorial claim over our waters and our resources.

Those quals would definately help you out with the recruiting competition to get into the trade but I'm pretty sure you wouldn't get a waver on any of the training courses. Alot of guys that were on my 3's had NFPA seals from previous training(that they paid for themselves) and they were...

Glad I could help,    Vision requirement is minimum V3 (not sure how that translates to the 20/20 scale?) Lots of FFs wear glasses including myself and it shouldn't be an issue unless your vision is very poor. Yearly physical fitness tests are required, although we have are own test rather...

Hey Mike,         Former member here who was also on the same QL3 as you ('92-'98). Drop me an email if you want Can't-ley.

I was in the hangar when they dropped that torp, didn't think that it had made the news. No big deal unless your toes were under it. But I did have other things on my mind - like figuring out which mistakes I'd made in my life, that had led up to me being stuck in the middle of the Gulf on one...

Hi Chris, I'm currently an air force firefighter posted to CFB Trenton, so I can answer a few questions regarding training, the postings that you can expect, and work schedule. Can't say much about the recruiting process, as I remustered into the trade, but I imagine prior firefighting...